Contemporary abstract artist
My work invites viewers to ask, ‘What is this?’—and then, ‘What was this?’ I’m drawn to the layered histories a surface can hold, and the legacies it quietly reveals
For over 25 years, I have explored the interplay between time, texture, and memory. My paintings are held in private and corporate collections across the United States and Canada. Born in Toronto and now based in Santa Barbara, I have built a reputation as a commission-based abstract contemporary painter whose works invite close, almost investigative observation.
My creative process, which I refer to as deconstructive, begins with an act of creation—plaster and house paint applied in rich, textured strata – followed by an intentional undoing. I claw, scrape, and peel away at the surface, revealing fragments of hidden color and fleeting imagery. Each mark carries the trace of what came before, blurring the line between construction and erosion.
The result is work that feels at once raw and refined – tactile fields of distress and surprising delicacy, permanence and impermanence. In my hands, a surface becomes both a record and a question, a place where beauty emerges through the evidence of its own making and unmaking, holding beauty in its scars.
